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Associate at RMI working on economic development and cleantech manufacturing. The usual caveats apply. Here for the #EnergySky.

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this is going to be an interesting thread to follow. I’d tag Ellie but she isn’t on here

06.03.2026 23:21 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m glad I no longer work in social-media rapid response. My thoughts are with everyone who’s forced to spend their evening waiting for the right moment to post someone else’s tepid takes.

24.02.2026 23:46 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Can fake meat help solve climate change? Bruce Friedrich on why we need to change the meat, not the consumer, to solve the climate crisis.

Today on Volts: meat! Bruce Friedrich argues that a) the dire environmental & social impacts of meat cultivation are rising, but b) so is meat consumption, so the only solution is c) plant-based or cultivated meat. We talk about the state of the market, the tech, & the future possibilities.

18.02.2026 18:29 👍 108 🔁 25 💬 18 📌 13

Writing is thinking.

It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.

16.02.2026 14:55 👍 2911 🔁 703 💬 61 📌 49

It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.

16.02.2026 14:45 👍 1105 🔁 227 💬 16 📌 26

The National Labs are part of the foundation of U.S. science and innovation. They should be strengthened, not gutted.

10.02.2026 05:08 👍 91 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 3

love all my fellow nerds but I'm using IRA here is a generic stand-in for a big policy swing, not a specific future approach necessarily focused on revenue and credits because of reconciliation. It was great btw, the next five will be much better.

10.02.2026 04:24 👍 22 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

Bad Bunny is telling the world that the people in Puerto Rico are American citizens and deserve reliable and resilient electricity and infrastructure investment from the U.S. government.

09.02.2026 02:07 👍 1026 🔁 174 💬 12 📌 3
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The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

09.02.2026 02:00 👍 2095 🔁 1433 💬 34 📌 54

Bezos fucked the paper and instead of fixing it he’s destroying it despite the fact that he could spend the money to make things right without even noticing its absence.

04.02.2026 11:54 👍 1333 🔁 157 💬 30 📌 8

“The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone.”

🔥🔥🔥

27.01.2026 15:22 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

The 2025 Headline of the Year Nominees

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22.12.2025 23:48 👍 1928 🔁 1111 💬 28 📌 220

Delightful.

23.12.2025 00:54 👍 136 🔁 35 💬 0 📌 3
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2025 be 2025-ing!

23.12.2025 05:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Asylum seekers’ jewellery could be seized to pay for processing costs, says Home Office minister Idea borrowed from Denmark is latest attempt to reduce number of people seeking asylum in UK

This has such uncomfortable Holocaust vibes, and they should be ashamed of it. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

17.11.2025 12:55 👍 133 🔁 41 💬 4 📌 3

So much of what I read these days is slop devoid of soul. This @michael-thomas.bsky.social piece is a crisp, refreshing reprieve. Thanks @volts.wtf for amplifying it. I’m glad it hit my feed.

25.10.2025 00:00 👍 39 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
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ICYMI: Governor Shapiro Announces $352.9 Million Eos Energy Investment ICYMI: Governor Shapiro Announces $352.9 Million Eos Energy Investment

Good news out of Pennsylvania with Eos Energy announcing an expansion of their battery manufacturing and creation of 735 new jobs. #energysky www.pa.gov/governor/new...

21.10.2025 23:45 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0

This is wild.

20.10.2025 12:49 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Louvre Closed After Thieves Steal ‘Priceless’ Jewels in Brazen Daylight Robbery

I guess Neal Caffrey really is in Paris! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/w...

19.10.2025 20:58 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Possibly the day’s best sign

18.10.2025 21:32 👍 388 🔁 41 💬 0 📌 1
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All-Time Lows and All-Time Highs for Announced Manufacturing Investment in 2025 | Created with Datawrapper Create interactive, responsive & beautiful charts — no code required.

Chart link here: www.datawrapper.de/_/J72jP/

04.10.2025 13:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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04.10.2025 13:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m so glad nothing happened in the Yankees-Red Sox game until after Yom Kippur ended. It was relieving to just turn on my phone and tune into 0-0.

03.10.2025 01:54 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

(Photo credit for our cover image goes to to Julian Spector at @canarymedia.com).

19.09.2025 18:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What’s Next for Advanced Energy Manufacturing in the United States? - RMI While the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) resolves some tax uncertainty, it also raises new questions for industries looking to build in the United States. Here, we break down the key OBBBA provisi...

But OBBBA also creates new opportunities. There are many (many) angles to this story—and this story is still unfolding. Please give our piece a read!
rmi.org/whats-next-f...

19.09.2025 18:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

New @rockymtninst.bsky.social article with my colleagues Ellie Garland and Meredith Cowart: What's next for advanced energy manufacturing in the United States in the wake of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA)?

It's undeniable that the law creates new challenges for many manufacturers.

19.09.2025 18:06 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

One thought on this entire year: It's sad if not totally shocking to see that for many folks in public life, their principles are—at best—merely preferences.

10.09.2025 01:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@volts.wtf you were way ahead of the curve here

03.09.2025 21:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

03.09.2025 20:22 👍 29154 🔁 8576 💬 507 📌 649

nice

22.08.2025 21:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0